How Are We Doing?

I thought would reprint one of our first Save Our Sarasota™ blog entries (Mar 15, 2005) and ask readers to comment about how we are doing. While writing about issues doesn't necessarily result in an action, it does sensitize people to a view point that may be unknown or be opposite to your own view, or maybe even correlate with your thinking. Thinking about and discussing issues is the best way to find a common direction for all of us.

Please leave a comment - just click on the comment line at the bottom of this post and type in your view. Thanks!
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From March 15, 2005:

Our mission is to be a constructive and positive voice for the preservation and enhancement of Sarasota. Our goals are to preserve, enhance, and promote:

• Sarasota's uniqueness
• Sarasota's ecological, cultural, and historic legacies and distinguished institutions
• Urbanization that respects pedestrian scale and activities
• Ecologically sensitive urban design
• Economically responsible urban development
• Integrity of public management
• Current and new passive and active public places for human enjoyment, responsive to local characteristics (climate, vegetation, landscape, marinescape)
• Affordable housing and necessary support amenities
• Locally owned businesses and affordable commercial space
• New businesses that respond to Sarasota's uniqueness and priorities.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead, American Anthropoligist (1901-1978)